Visteon said its automotive climate joint venture in China has opened a new plant to manufacture aluminum radiators.

The plant, located in Chengdu in southwest China, is expected to have an annual production capacity of 500,000 units by 2013, Reuters reported.

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The supplier said the plant will be a wholly owned subsidiary of its joint venture with FAWER Automotive Parts.

The joint venture, which first established a factory in 1995, supplies heating ventilation and air conditioning systems and charge air coolers to automakers.

The new facility will support the FAW-Volkswagen manufacturing base in Chengdu and other automakers in southwest China, Visteon told the news agency.

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